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Alcohol Consumption and Cigarette Smoking are Important Modifiers of the Association Between Acute Pancreatitis and the PRSS1-PRSS2 Locus in Men.
Pancreas - 1 Feb 2017
Polonikov Alexey V, Samgina Tatyana A, Nazarenko Petr M, Bushueva Olga Y, Ivanov Vladimir P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The present study was designed to investigate whether the susceptibility to acute pancreatitis (AP) attributable to polymorphism rs10273639 at the PRSS1-PRSS2 locus is dependent on alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking. METHODS: A total of 603 unrelated Russian individuals including 304 patients with physician-diagnosed AP and 299 sex- and age-matched healthy controls have been recruited for the...
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